Today in History - History - May 25th

2011Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

1994Mark Messier guarantees his New York Rangers will beat the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, which he would help deliver on by scoring a natural hat trick in the game

1842Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague

1959Khrushchev visits Angola

1927Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford

1989Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"

1941Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941

1981Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)

194830th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis

1980Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1889Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft

1969Anne Heche, Aurora Ohio, actress (Donnie Brasco, Juror, Volcano)

1926Bill Sharman, Abilene Texas, Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics)

1939Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)

1803Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston Massachusetts, American essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)

1907Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)

1957NFL coach Chuck Noll (25) weds first wife Marianne Noll

1661King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca

1898Chocolatier Milton S. Hershey (40) weds Catherine Sweeney at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

1940MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach

1965Boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson (44) weds Millie Bruce in Los Angeles

1901Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper

1954Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)

1919Madame C. J. Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51